RIGHT NOW THEY DON'T KNOW HOW THE MAN DIED. A CAR WRECK AND GUN TBIER ON THE WEST SIDE TONIGHT RESIDENTS ARE APPLAUDING THE WORK OF POLICE. AUTHORITIES SAY THE MAN DRIVING THIS CAR IS IN THE HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW. POLICE SAY THEY HAD TO SHOOT HIM AFTER HE RAN THE CAR INTO AN UNDERCOVER JSO VEHICLE FOLLOWING HIM. POLICE TELL US THIS IS THE STILL UNIDENTIFIED MAN THEY WERE FOLLOWING, SEEN HERE ON SURVEILLANCE IN A WEST SIDE CVS. THEY SAY HE TRIED TO ROB THE STORE AND SHOT AT THE CLERK GRAZING HIS HEAD. SCOTT JOHNSON IS LIVE TONIGHT WITH MORE ON THIS SUSPECT TAKEDOWN. WELL, MARY, IT HAPPENED RIGHT BEHIND ME AROUND AN HOUR OR SO AGO. THEY REOPENED SAN JUAN BOULEVARD. IT HAS BEEN VERY BIG SCENE. DOZENS OF POLICE OUT HERE AFTER THEY TOOK THIS SUSPECT DOWN. LAST REPORT FROM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, HE IS STILL ALIVE. THEY WANT TO QUESTION HIM, ASSUMING HE PULLS THROUGH. THE CHAOS UNFOLDED AFTER POLICE HAD BEEN MONITORING THE SUSPECT IN THE CVS ROBBERY AT THIS WEST SIDE APARTMENT COMPLEX. VEENLTLY IT TURNED INTO A CAR CHASE THAT STOPPED RIGHT HERE. THE POLICE FOLLOWED THE SUSPECT INSIDE THIS TAKEOUT JOINT AND WHEN HE REACHED IN A BAG WHICH POLICE LATER FOUND HAD A GUN INSIDE, THEY OPENED FIRE PUTTING THE SUSPECT DOWN AND RELIEVING A LOT OF TENSION IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. THAT'S A GOOD THING. THAT'S A GOOD THING BECAUSE WE HAVE CHILDREN UP IN HERE AND ALL OF THAT. OUR CAMERAS WERE ROLLING OUTSIDE THE APARTMENT COMPLEX WHERE POLICE SAY THEY WERE MONITORING THE SUSPECT WHEN POLICE SURROUNDED ANOTHER CAR AND WERE QUESTIONING PEOPLE. NO WORD ON IF THEY FOUND ANYONE WITH KNOWLEDGE OF THE CRIME. THERE WERE OTHER OCCUPANTS IN THE VEHICLE WITH THE SUSPECT AT THE TIME HE JUMPED OUT. THOSE PEOPLE ARE IN CUSTODY AND CURRENTLY DOWNTOWN BEING QUESTIONED. THIS CAR WASH WITH VISIBLE BULLET HOLES. THE PEOPLE HERE ARE STILL HAPPY THE POLICE DID WHAT IT TOOK TO GET AN ARMED SUSPECT OFF THE STREET. 40 YEARS I LIVED HERE, JUST WHAT IT IS. I THOUGHT THEY GOT ARRESTED. I THOUGHT IT WAS THE GUY THAT SHOT ALL THE PEOPLE. POLICE HAVE YET TO FIND OUT IF THIS THIS SUSPECT IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SHOOTING AT THE NEARBY MOJO'S RESTAURANT EARLY MONDAY MORNING. THAT WILL LIKELY COME LATER IN THE INVESTIGATION. MOJO'S EMPLOYEES ASK TO NOT GO ON CAMERA TONIGHT BUT PRAISE THEED JSO'S QUICK WORK IN NABBING A SUSPECT. RELIEVED ONE LESS ARMED GUNMAN IS ON THE STREET. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ABOUT IT ANYMORE REALLY. TOO MUCH THAT GOES ON. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE LIVING IN A SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD. SO IT WILL GET BETTER. JUST FRUSTRATING. VERY FRUSTRATE TO GO SEE IT EVERY DAY. BUT THIS IS JUST WHAT HAPPENS, WAY OF LIFE, I GUESS. SO POLICE CONTINUE TO LOOK INTO THIS AND WHETHER THERE IS THAT LINK TO THE MOJO'S ROBBERY TO SEE IF WE GOT THE CROOK FOR BOTH CRIMES OR ONE OF THE TWO BIG ONES IN AVONDALE EARLY MONDAY MORNING MANY POLICE SAYING THEY ARE NOT GOING TO RELEASE ANYMORE DETAILS ON THIS CASE UNTIL A NEWS CONFERENCE TOMORROW MORNING. LIVE ON THE WEST SIDE, SCOTT JOHNSON, CHANNEL 4 THE LOCAL STATION. SCOTT, POLICE MENTION THAT THERE WERE OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN THAT CAR THIS AFTERNOON. ARE THEY SAYING WHETHER THERE WERE ANY OTHER INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE CVS ROBBERY? THEY HAVE NOT, MARY. WE DID SEE SOME PEOPLE HOVERING AROUND A CAR THAT APPEARED TO BE BEING QUESTIONED BY POLICE IN THE AREA. WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CONFIRM THIS THEY ARE PART OF THIS. PEOPLE IN THE CAR WITH THE SUSPECT WHEN IT CRASHED, WE OFFICIALLY KNOW HAVE BEEN SPEAKING TO POLICE DOWNTOWN.

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Residents in Avondale and Jacksonville's Westside are hoping a police involved shooting Tuesday afternoon has ended a crime spree in the area. An undercover Jacksonville Sheriff's Office SWAT officer shot a man they suspect is responsible for a shooting at an Avondale CVS pharmacy early Monday morning.

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Chief Annie Smith said SWAT officers had set up to do surveillance at an apartment complex in reference to the CVS robbery, and while they were waiting, they obtained a warrant for the suspect's arrest.

Channel 4's cameras were the only ones rolling outside the apartment complex where police said they were monitoring the suspect.

Smith said the officers saw the suspect getting into a car, and they followed him. She said he eventually took evasive action and crashed his car into an undercover SWAT vehicle in the 6400 block of San Juan Avenue at Jammes Road about 3 p.m.

According to Smith, the suspect jumped out of the back seat of the car and began running behind the building next to a Sunoco gas station and a Mr. Dragon Chinese Restaurant. Officers were pursuing the suspect, and Detective M.E. Campanero was directly behind the suspect as he came around the far side of the restaurant. They ordered him to surrender, and the suspect was carrying a black bag, clutching it close to his chest with his hand inside it, Smith said.

She said the suspect refused to comply and forced his way into the business by shouldering the door. As he entered, the detectives were behind him ordering him to comply, Smith said. She said there was a civilian in the business at the time.

The suspect turned toward the officer with his hand inside the black bag, and Campanero fired twice, striking the suspect. Police later found a gun in the bag.

"There were other occupants in the vehicle with the suspect at the time he jumped out. Those people are downtown being questioned," said Smith. No word on whether anyone JSO spoke to Tuesday night knew anything about the suspect or the crime.

The suspect, whose identity was not immediately released, was taken to UF Health Jacksonville in life-threatening condition and was undergoing surgery.

No officers were injured.

Traffic on San Juan Avenue was closed in both directions.

The resident's Channel 4 spoke with Tuesday said their area has seen it's fair share of crime.

Smith said investigators don't yet know if the suspect was the same man sought in the fatal shooting at Mojo no.4 Urban BBQ Whiskey Bar around the time of the CVS shooting. At CVS, the suspect shot an employee, and the bullet grazed his head. The worker has since been released from a hospital.

And police said a gunman shot and killed 54-year-old Robert Sutton (pictured, left) in the rear of the Mojo restaurant as he and another man were cleaning.

"It's the way it is, 20 years I've lived here, just the way it is. I was hoping it was the guy who shot all those people," said a neighbor.

This is the sixth police-involved shooting in Jacksonville this year. Four of the suspects were killed.

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